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Iran blames US for troubling fight against drug trafficking
May 19, 2019 09:04Iran blasted the US for hindering regional and international cooperation to fight against drug trafficking by imposing sanctions against the country as a pioneering state in anti-narcotics campaign.
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Trump plans to pardon soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes: Report
May 19, 2019 02:38US President Donald Trump has asked for immediate preparation of paperwork required to pardon several American troops convicted or accused of war crimes – including premeditated murder, attempted murder and desecration of a corpse, a report reveals.
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US airstrike kills 8 Afghan police officers
May 17, 2019 13:46At least eight policemen have been killed in a US airstrike on Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand in what was seemingly an accident.
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“Production of illicit drugs 50-folded in Afghanistan after US invasion”
May 13, 2019 11:41Iran’s Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari warned that production of different types of narcotics has sorely increased in Afghanistan since the US started war against the country in 2001.
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India, Afghanistan start trading goods via Iran’s Chabahar Port
May 11, 2019 10:47A big cargo of rice from India has arrived in Iran’s Southeastern Chabahar Port and is destined to be transported to landlocked Afghanistan while at the same time Afghans are sending a shipment of dried fruit to the South Asian country through the same strategic port.
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Is the US winning or losing in Afghanistan?
May 11, 2019 03:34Washington is miserably trapped in a war of its own making and does not know how it extricate itself
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Huge explosion, gunfire hit Afghan capital
May 08, 2019 08:28A huge car bomb explosion and subsequent gunfire have hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to officials, with at least nine people having been injured.
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Talks with US in Doha stumble over troop withdrawal timetable: Afghan Taliban
May 06, 2019 09:36The Taliban militant group says peace talks with the US — which have been underway in Qatar for months — have stalled over the key issue of a timetable for American and other foreign troops to pull out of Afghanistan, a longtime Taliban demand.
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Taliban attack hits police HQ in northern Afghanistan, kills several
May 05, 2019 09:40At least seven people have been killed and 55 others injured in an attack by the Taliban militant group on the police headquarters in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan Province.
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US ends training course for Afghan pilots due to high desertions
May 05, 2019 03:11The US military has terminated a training program for Afghan pilots and maintainers in the United States due to high desertion rates among the trainees, the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says.